If Rudy Wiebe is the father of Mennonite writing in Canada, the best-known Canadian Mennonite writer today is Miriam Toews. I have always marvelled at how little anger he has.” Of course, his experience was “far more drastic,” than for the characters in his book, Wiebe observes.Īs for Khadr today, Wiebe says, “He strikes me as a wonderful man. being dominated by an overwhelming patriarch and getting into real difficulties over it.” It’s quite wonderful.”Īs for why Khadr liked the book, Wiebe says he saw in it how a person could “struggle with the teachings of a father. “Through that, our friendship and our understanding of each other grew. “We had a number of conversations through the prison glass,” Wiebe says. When Khadr came to Canada, he was sent to a prison in Edmonton where Wiebe went to visit him. “Omar liked it and wrote me a long letter about it, and so we start corresponding,” says Wiebe. One of the books they gave him to read was Peace Shall Destroy Many.

While he was in prison at Guantanamo Bay, professors at Edmonton’s King’s University helped him get a high-school education. Khadr, who was 15 at the time, was taken there by his father, an extremist who was part of al-Qaeda. One unexpected result of Wiebe’s first book, Peace Shall Destroy Many, is his friendship with Omar Khadr, the Canadian who was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for committing war crimes in Afghanistan. OL8299086W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.08 Pages 262 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230131204846 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 302 Scandate 20230125210755 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0771091826 Tts_version 5.During a recent interview focusing on his debut novel and recent CMU Pax Award, acclaimed Mennonite writer Rudy Wiebe spoke on a variety of topics, including Omar Khadr, Miriam Toews, the western Canadian Indigenous story and the MB Herald.įirst book leads to unexpected friendship Urn:lcp:peaceshalldestro0000rudy:lcpdf:ced77d3a-a2da-4add-85fc-d7414c65f3ee Foldoutcount 0 Identifier peaceshalldestro0000rudy Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s26rq0xb29f Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780771091827 Metasource_catalog openlibrary Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-1-gd3a4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9401 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200624 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:04:54 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40833814 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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